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00:00That is world-class.
00:13Am I doing all right?
00:14Doing well.
00:15This is The Great Outdoors.
00:25That's just for a taste of life on the land.
00:30Cotton candy, covered bacon.
00:32Only in Texas.
00:36Yee-haw!
00:37Welcome to the Houston Rodeo.
00:44It's branded as the world's biggest rodeo by a country mile.
00:49Two million visitors over 20 days.
00:52Roping in the best Rough Riders.
00:55And real-life ranches from clear across the nation.
00:58But hold your horses there, partner.
01:01This Texan city is so much more than Spurs and Stetsons.
01:06Bet you didn't know this.
01:08They call Houston the New York of the South.
01:12The theatre district here is impressive.
01:15Seventeen city blocks of playhouses and performance halls.
01:20Way bigger than Broadway.
01:21And that's just the curtain raiser to Houston's cultural cred.
01:29The city's art scene is another genuine surprise.
01:34Houston has world-class galleries and museums.
01:37Including one that's out of this world.
01:39The lone star state has been reaching for the stars since the 1950s.
01:47Space Centre Houston tells the story of NASA's Apollo moonshots.
01:53The International Space Station.
01:55Look at him go!
01:56And unmanned missions to the Red Planet.
01:59Just a little piece of Mars, that's all.
02:02Houston, I have no problem being starstruck by NASA's achievements.
02:08And there's more on the launch pad.
02:11Take a tram tour through Rocket Park to Johnson's Space Centre.
02:16And see scientists working on our next great leap into space.
02:19This is not a drill.
02:22This is actually where engineers and astronauts are working.
02:26Preparing.
02:28Planning.
02:30This building houses robots, computers and training simulators.
02:34And every NASA astronaut since the 1980s has to walk towards this building in preparation for their next mission.
02:39Next on my mission?
02:41I know. How cool, huh?
02:44This would have to be one of the most photographed exhibitions, wouldn't it?
02:47It absolutely is.
02:49This is a replica of the space shuttle independence.
02:54People get to go inside it, get a chance to see what it's like.
02:57Touch it, grab it, shake it.
02:59Maybe even get a chance to see the space toilet.
03:00It's always a big hit, right?
03:02And then it's piggybacked on top of our NASA 905 747.
03:07So it's a fantastic plane that used to transport the shuttles across the country.
03:12And that's the actual plane?
03:13Yes, it's the actual plane.
03:14That's the workhorse itself.
03:15That's right.
03:16It's just one of many things that you can see and do at Space Center Houston.
03:19So we love it.
03:22Maybe you prefer stars of the Michelin kite.
03:26Houston has 13,000 restaurants, six with the stellar seal.
03:32For food as old as the heavens, there's Ishtia.
03:35Choctaw chef David Skinner forges Native American culture in the fire of modern cooking to create 20 surprising courses over three hours.
03:48I really want people to understand native cuisine.
03:53What we have inside are going to be black temporary beans we get from the Pima reservation in Arizona.
03:57Really delicious being very different.
04:00It's done with bison.
04:01Most of the world's cuisine, actually 60%, the ingredients came from here.
04:07They came from either North America or South America.
04:09Is that so?
04:10It is.
04:11So imagine Italian food without tomatoes, onions, garlic, peppers.
04:15I don't know if there's anything left.
04:16I don't know that there is either.
04:18Your next course is called Deer in the Woods.
04:22Part of the idea was bring out things that I ate as a child, some of my grandmother, great-grandmother's recipes, but do it in a way that is not what anyone's going to expect.
04:33I mean, you've heard of dinner in a show, but what about when dinner is the show?
04:40Think Texas is all wide open plains?
04:44No siree, Bob.
04:46Galveston sits pretty as a peach on the Texas Gulf Coast south of Houston.
04:52Cruise from this island city to the Caribbean.
04:56Or cruise around town with local legend, JR.
05:00Riding in these is riding in style.
05:03It's a Model T tour into Galveston's heyday as a wealthy port.
05:08From the mid-1800s to the late-1800s, this right here was considered the Wall Street of the southwest.
05:13So this would have been pumping.
05:14This is it.
05:15And a mix of horse, cart, these Model Ts.
05:18That's right.
05:19Saloons.
05:20Mm-hmm.
05:21Lots of saloons.
05:22Guns, hats.
05:23Yeah, that's right.
05:24I was born in the wrong era.
05:26Fortunes have flowed with the tide in Galveston.
05:29When hurricanes hit in 1900 and 2008, these rainbow homes were awash with seawater.
05:37And that salt water inundated all over the island and killed tons of oak trees in this area.
05:44They didn't just want to rip the oak tree out.
05:46They decided to carve artistic structures out of these oak trees.
05:50A man named King Vidor was born on the island and raised in this house.
05:56He survived the 1900 storm.
05:58When he grew up, he became a director.
06:00And he actually directed the scene in The Wizard of Oz.
06:03He did not.
06:04Of the storm scene when that tornado comes in and picks up her house.
06:10Oh.
06:11Hey, hi.
06:12How are y'all doing?
06:13Awful, everyone's so nice here.
06:15Oh, I love Galveston.
06:17Ooh.
06:18Ooh.
06:19This road doesn't really exist.
06:21I mean, if someone ever told me I'd be driving over the Atlantic Ocean, I don't think I'd believe them.
06:27Look at the precision.
06:44How he just managed us to get them in that gate.
06:48Sheep herding is an age-old practice worldwide.
06:52But few herding dogs know their way around woolly livestock like they do in Ireland.
07:09You've really got him eating out of the palm of your hands.
07:11Sometimes.
07:12What a great dog.
07:14Hello, Ben.
07:15Hello, Ben.
07:16He has been the Irish national champion for the last two years.
07:19Wow.
07:20Nursery champions us for dogs under three years old.
07:23So we're working with a superstar.
07:24He takes the title, yeah.
07:25There's a lot of sheep in Ireland.
07:28There must be a lot of sheepdogs.
07:30A lot of sheep, yeah.
07:31There's just over four million adult female sheep.
07:34Lots of little lambs this time of the year.
07:36Some people try to work without sheepdogs, but for us in this part of Ireland, the landscape,
07:40it's just impossible.
07:41A lot of it unspoiled, unknown, really.
07:44I belong with you.
07:45I belong with you.
07:46You belong with me.
07:47You my sweetheart.
07:48I belong with you.
07:51Rugged Irish countryside.
07:53Windy roads that snake their way alongside meandering creeks and streams.
07:58You can see how it would stir creativity in the soul.
08:01One of the names you see all over Sligo is Yeats.
08:06That's William Butler Yeats, one of the great poets of the 20th century.
08:11And he loved this part of the world so much so, he decided this is where he wanted to lay
08:17for eternity.
08:18So he wrote it in a poem under Ben Bulban.
08:21Under Bear Ben Bulban's head, in Drumcliff Churchyard, Yeats is led.
08:29An ancestor was rector there.
08:32Long years ago, a church stands near.
08:36By the road, an ancient cross.
08:39No marble, no conventional phrase.
08:42On limestone quarried near the spot.
08:45By his command, these words are caught.
08:49Cast a cold eye on life, on death.
08:53Horseman, pass by.
08:57Pretty special, isn't it?
08:59Even better, with an Irish accent.
09:03This famously flat summit is Ireland's only tabletop mountain,
09:09shadowing travellers as they journey through Sligo's Yeats country
09:13all the way to the coast.
09:16Well, this is a bit different.
09:18We're just literally driving on the tidal flats.
09:22It's a short detour off Ireland's wild Atlantic Way,
09:26but follow all 14 stone pillars and you won't get lost.
09:31It's really the only marker because this road doesn't really exist.
09:36I mean, if someone ever told me I'd be driving over the Atlantic Ocean,
09:40I don't think I'd believe them.
09:42Nor visiting the original Coney Island in Ireland.
09:46You know Coney Island in New York?
09:49Well, this is the one it's named after.
09:52It means Ilan Coney, which is Rabbit Island.
09:56There used to be a captain of a ship called the Aracusa.
09:59After remembering that the last island he'd seen was Coney Island,
10:02he'd also seen rabbits on the island in New York.
10:05So he named a Coney Island.
10:07So we're Coney Island number one.
10:09But there's no hot dogs or roller coasters here.
10:12Just one tiny island.
10:14Home to what has to be Ireland's most remote pub.
10:18What does happen if you miss the tide?
10:20So if you miss the tide, what you do is you wait for the next high tide.
10:23They're never that stuck.
10:25Yes, there's worse places to be stuck than the pub on Coney Island.
10:31The Atlantic shapes more than the land around here.
10:34Some of the best oysters in the world will be growing in Ireland.
10:37It also seasons the food.
10:40That is world class.
10:42The meats are very good.
10:44In Ligo, the Gaelic name is shligak,
10:47which means the bounding and shells are a shelly place.
10:50And Glen and Aisling believe they're even better with a dash of spice.
10:54Is that all?
10:56Is that enough for yourself?
10:58Yeah, I'll try it.
10:59We'll see how hard it is.
11:01Mmm.
11:03Nice, isn't it?
11:04Mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm.
11:07Are you talking about champagne and oysters?
11:08Yeah.
11:09We're in Sligo.
11:10Yeah, we're on the beach.
11:11Ah, ah.
11:14Cheers.
11:15Sláinte.
11:16Sláinte.
11:17To your health.
11:18To your health.
11:19That's what it means.
11:20Healing from the outside in.
11:22The ocean's oldest remedy wraps you in its greenest gift.
11:27There's so much similarities of our connection with the ocean.
11:31By having a sleeping bath,
11:32that's when you get a whole wellbeing feeling within your body.
11:36Warm and welcoming.
11:38Sums up Ireland, really.
11:40In the words of the great W.B. Yates,
11:43there are no strangers here,
11:45only friends you haven't yet met.
11:47I think never a truer word.
11:50Sláinte, Sligo.
11:52Oh my gosh, there are so many butterflies.
12:07Oh my gosh!
12:09It flew in my head.
12:11It just keeps getting better the further we go.
12:17Locally known as the Butterfly Walk,
12:20this is a section of the Round Hill Creek Track,
12:23an unexpectedly ethereal experience.
12:26I feel like I'm in this fairy forest,
12:30but you can still hear the ocean.
12:33It's an ideal spot to stretch your legs on a road trip
12:37along Queensland's Pacific Coast Way.
12:40It's like a little window!
12:46Perfectly framing the sleepy seaside town of 1770.
12:52Queensland's most northerly surf beach,
12:55sitting at the base of the Great Barrier Reef.
12:581770 and its twin town, Agnes Water,
13:01offer the best of both worlds, beach and reef.
13:05Look at this!
13:07And an abundance of delicious local produce.
13:11I have got a little bit of the truffle cheese,
13:14which is my favourite.
13:20Coastal Rush pop-up picnics really know how to spoil,
13:25with their spreads and scenery.
13:28I think I'm always going to watch sunset like this from now on.
13:32It's super sweet.
13:41And that sweetness extends further south
13:44on Queensland's Pacific Coast Way.
13:47The winding road carves its way
13:49through towering fields of sugar cane
13:51and delivers you to...
13:53The Barrel House, or the Blendatorium,
13:55as we like to call it.
13:56Yeah, I love that.
13:57So, I'm going to try and take your appreciation of rum
14:00to a whole new level.
14:03I like this one.
14:04Nice.
14:05I feel like it's light.
14:06Let me just...
14:08Cleanse the palate.
14:09Cleanse the nasal passages.
14:11So you're getting those really strong notes of smoke
14:13and scotch coming through.
14:15Yeah.
14:16Something a little bit different.
14:17I appreciate it.
14:18Yep.
14:19But I don't know if it's for me.
14:20Luckily, you can blend your own brew at Bundaberg Rum.
14:27Oh, she overpoured majorly.
14:32Okay, that'll do.
14:35You must have the pink here.
14:40Look at that liquid gold.
14:42Looks cold, doesn't it?
14:45Queensland is full to the brim of golden gems.
14:50There's my girl, Lady Elliot Island.
14:56And just a short flight from Bundaberg
14:58lies the southernmost jewel of the Great Barrier Reef.
15:08Lady Elliot Island, a tiny coral cave
15:11that you can walk around in less than an hour.
15:15But the true magic is in the water.
15:19We sit just five kilometres from the continental shelf.
15:27Which makes us a real natural location for megafauna.
15:30Lady Elliot was recently named
15:33the number one snorkelling spot in the world.
15:37A deserving accolade for island custodians,
15:40the Gash family.
15:42I first came here when I was five years old.
15:45Every day is a new day.
15:46You see something different.
15:47You get to have a different encounter.
15:49And it's just so magical.
15:51That was pure magic.
16:00I don't think I've ever seen that many manta ray in one spot.
16:04There was so many.
16:06I think maybe we had five or six in one side at one time.
16:11Yeah.
16:15Oh my gosh.
16:16I just still can't believe that we saw so much.
16:22The cherry on top was the pot of dolphins.
16:25That was very special.
16:31Special is the perfect word to describe Lady Elliot Island.
16:34But I'd also like to add spectacular, sustainable, and simply stunning.
16:44Cheers.
16:50Bend number one.
16:52Number two.
16:54Have you counted like this?
16:55No.
16:56If somebody in Queenstown tells me there are 99 bends, there are 99 bends.
17:08I'm going to prove it right here.
17:10It is one of the world's truths.
17:14And one of the world's scenic beauties.
17:17Bend number one.
17:19Number two.
17:21Do you realise I'm going to go all the way to 99?
17:23Fine.
17:24Yes.
17:25Have you counted it like this?
17:26No.
17:29This curvy, winding road is on Tasmania's rugged west coast.
17:35Earning its unofficial name as 99 bends, this natural roller coaster appears almost designed
17:42to ride in style.
17:44One of the things about driving a Rolls Royce is everybody knows when you've arrived.
17:49I've totally forgotten what we're up to.
17:52We're chatting too much.
17:53I'm losing focus.
17:5599.
17:57I hate to tell you this, but there's a couple more to go.
17:59Before one final twisty turn into Queenstown.
18:07Not bad at all.
18:09Do we do it again?
18:10Yes, might all be so.
18:12See ya mate, thank you very much.
18:13This colourful town has an equally colourful past.
18:17Mining saw the settlement grow and scattered relics around town are a reminder of what was once the world's richest mine.
18:26Gold was famously discovered here in 1883, but Queenstown's mountains were copper rich and that medal soon became the clear winner.
18:35The mining boom leaving behind a barren mountainous moonscape.
18:39Bit of a drop.
18:40Bit of a drop.
18:41Best viewed and appreciated from Iron Blow Lookout.
18:42Mining ceased over a decade ago and remarkably much of the region's bushland has regenerated.
18:53And carving its way through the centre of the now flourishing forest.
18:58All aboard please, all aboard!
19:02Is this century old steam locomotive.
19:06Back in its heyday, this beautiful train used to transport copper to the coast.
19:10The railway was the only thing that connected Queenstown to the rest of the world.
19:18Love the steam just poking through the trees.
19:23But now transports visitors into the Tassie wilderness.
19:27One of the steepest graves in the southern hemisphere up this rack section.
19:30You can get some good views.
19:40The pumpkin soup colour of Queen River is a result of a century of acid mine drainage.
19:48And remnants of the areas mining past remain a drawcard.
19:57Queenstown.
19:59Everywhere you look, every mountain, every piece of dirt seems to have some sort of value to it, doesn't it?
20:04Yeah, well it's the southern end of the Mount Reed volcanics and anywhere there was ironstone outcropping around these mountains
20:09they would explore under it with tunnels.
20:12Where there are more treasures to be found.
20:14Oh my goodness.
20:17Underground, copper literally oozes from the walls.
20:21Malachite is the green.
20:23Yeah.
20:24And the blue is urite as the name suggests.
20:27I can't believe the colours.
20:29It's dissolved copper and a bit of gold and silver in there too.
20:34So we're just going to follow the railway track now.
20:36Nice and simple.
20:40How's that technique Anthony?
20:43Am I doing alright?
20:44You're doing well.
20:45You're doing well.
20:47Hey.
20:48That's hard work buddy.
20:50I know.
20:51They did it bored holes like that for 8 hours.
20:53I'm done.
20:54Alright.
20:55Ted for the daylight.
20:57Anthony Coulson runs tours on Tassie's wild west coast.
21:00We've got this mining history which is easy to see.
21:05And you've got this.
21:07Pretty much the epicentre of Tasmania's western wilderness.
21:10More untouched treasures can be found in these prehistoric forests.
21:14Come face to face with one to two thousand year old Huon and King Billy pines.
21:21Some of the oldest living organisms on earth.
21:25Everything's perfect for these species.
21:27These are called famnic species.
21:28This is super old rainforest now.
21:32It's remote.
21:33Rugged.
21:35And more often than not.
21:36Raining.
21:38You know this is the cleanest rain in the world?
21:39Is it?
21:40So you just got that?
21:41Well, so they say.
21:42Any time I've travelled, when I come home, this is what I want to come home to.
21:47This makes me feel content.
21:49It's a happy space.
21:50It's beautiful.
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